Thursday, March 14, 2013

Bunnies, Chickens and Eggs Oh My!

The best part about this time of year is all of the bunny stuff that comes out due to Easter and Spring being right around the corner.  I pretty much love everything bunny!  That being said, I couldn't let Easter go by without making some adorable bunny cookies.

One of my biggest problems is narrowing down which shapes I want to make.  I wanted to make them all, but that really isn't practical.  I decided to make some cookie pops, so I knew I was going to make a large Rabbit and a large Egg.  My other thought was to make some smaller cookies, that could possible go together in a bunch.  I chose a small bunny, duck and egg.  It was hard to refrain from making 5 different bunny shapes and flowers etc., but I figured I could do some spring cookies later on.


The stick cookies are quite large.  I would say they are 4 inch cookies.

Egg cookie on a stick.

I added my mom's name as an example.


A bunny cookie I made without a stick.

Egg cookie I made without the stick.
 My husband thinks this chick in an egg shell cookie looks like the batman symbol.  If you just look at the yellow chick you can see what he is talking about.


Fat bunny cookies on a stick.
So, my husband had a comment for these bunny cookies as well.  He thinks they are really fat bunnies.  I told them that it is just the shape of the cookie cutter, but actually now that I look at the cutter, I think mine just look fat because of the way I iced them.  I'm going to have to fix that the next time around.
http://www.williams-sonoma.com/products/easter-copper-cookie-cutters

I turned the egg cookie into a chick! It's a chick on a stick.  Sounds like fast food.




 Here are some pics of the little cookies.










 Today, when I was packaging up the cookies, I took some closer pictures.  You can see a little more detail in the photos below.  I made piping icing (stiff icing) to make the tails and bows on the bunny cookies.  I also used it to pipe in the names.

Fat bunnies on a stick!

The chick or the egg?

Eggs with sticks.

Bunny and carrot.

Small eggs and carrots.

Batman Chick!

Small Bunnies.

Small Chicks.
Small Eggs.
These last photos show the different kinds of packaging I put together.  I thought I had more of my labels left, but I think I ran out.  Good thing I just ordered some more.  I also ordered some more of my personalized ribbon, from name maker, that says "Lucky Treats Make Life A Little Sweeter".  Check out their website https://www.namemaker.com/.  I love their ribbon!






















Hoppy Easter!!


















Lucky Clover

St. Patty's Day is fast approaching and since I love me some four leaf clovers, I thought it would be fitting to make some "lucky" treats.  I am having a little get together on March 17th and what goes better with an Irish coffee than a tasty cookie!

Ok, so I wanted to have two different color greens, just to make it a bit more interesting.  I only use one consistency of icing when I make my cookies.  A lot of people do a piping icing and a flooding icing, but that seems like way too much work.  I do however make a piping icing when I have to write words or do fine detail.  You will see that demonstrated in the Easter cookies.


I first flooded the cookie with my light green icing.

On this one I just added a simple white heart on the top right.

On this cookie I added some dark green dots.  It kind of looks like it has a disease. =D

I only made 10 clover cookies, since I was making Easter cookies at the same time.  Here are some pics of the rest of the cookies.






Cookie with its wrapping.
I wish you all a very Lucky Treats filled St. Patrick's Day!